US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for autonomously maneuvering a marine vessel to a storage structure" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,076, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for autonomously maneuvering a marine vessel to a storage structure" was invented by Gokul Puthumanaillam (Champaign, Ill.), Vardhan Dongre (Urbana, Ill.) and Phillip M. Renkert (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for maneuvering a marine vessel to a target position is provided, the system comprising: a sensor; a marine propulsion system; and one or more hardware processors configured to: determine that the marine vessel is being secured at a target position; receive, from the sensor, information indicative of an impact of ...